It's actually my road bike (I designed it with road-biased geometry, and it usually wears skinny tyres and grinds out tarmac miles), but this kind of "road" was definitely on the radar when putting it together.

It's a bit different to the bike I actually race CX on (albeit infrequently)... which has a day job as my single-speed commuter. Don't want to futz up an expensive geared drivetrain with this stuff:

Here is my "CX' bike - almost finished. Its mostly made out of spare parts. Had to buy long reach brakes, a new front wheel, cheap 2nd hand tyres, and the threadless stem+adapter (didnt have to do this but wanted to). An old hi-ten frame i did a 30sec paint job on with fluro line marking paint from work. Need to keep rummaging for toe cages/straps, rear brake inner cable, and some tubes cos these damn puncture repairs will not hold at all. built a)for the occasional gravel ride b) the daily riding I plan to do through some tracks in the salt lakes below, and c) because i had so many extra fixie bits and pieces lying around

Not many pics going on in here, here's mine after nearly a year of use.

Since I bought it I've changed the seat, chain (craptacular chain came with it), rear derailler and cassette (11-36) as well as the small chainring to a 34t. The bikes not bad though it is a tad heavy at 25 pounds, bar tape is crap and needs replacing already, it came with a Sora BB, I have a Dura Ace one ready to roll. Still trying to work out the best way of stopping the chain chewing up the chainstay, there isn't a lot of space underneath the gear cable and the Lezyne one I just put on is a tad big and thick, even though it touches the gear cable it doesn't seem to effect the shifting.

Here is my rig recently built with my hubby's help. I like it so much that I am thinking of just swapping out wheels when I need to ride road thereby going N-1 ie selling the roadie...And yes the front is too high (being conservative with position while my knee heals) and the cable outer is a different color front and back...

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